the Pacific Second Language Research Forum (PacSLRF)
Participants
All experts, scholars, teachers and learners in areas of second language acquisition are invited.
Plenary Speakers
*David Birdsong, Professor of second language acquisition, University of Texas at Austin, US
*Rod Ellis, Professor of second language acquisition, University of Auckland, New Zealand
*Patricia A. Duff, Professor of language and literacy education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Discussion topics
*Bilingualism
*Child Second Language Acquisition (SLA)
*Classroom cognitive approaches
*Lexicon and morphology
*Multilingualism
*Oral and written discourse
*Pragmatics
*Research methodology
*Sociocultural approaches
*Sociolinguistic approaches
*Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
*Testing
Sponsors
University of Queensland, Australia and Griffith University, Australia
Organizer information
The Pacific Second Language Research Forum was founded in 1992. It is a venue for data-based and theoretical papers on areas of basic research in SLA.
The special emphasis of PacSLRF is on SLA work in the Asia-Pacific region. It maintains a steering committee responsible for selecting sites for the meetings. Each meeting is organized and run by the host institution and is self-supporting. Members of the current steering committee are from Manoa, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and China. Previous meetings were held respectively in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the US.
For more information, please visit http://www.uq.edu.au/slccs/AppliedLing/pacslrf/.
